Career
An officer of Indian Police Service of 1952 batch of Bihar cadre of India, Sinha died in harness as Deputy Inspector General (Crime Investigation Department), Government of Bihar. Sinha, an M A in English Literature from Patna University (1949), first became an English Lecturer at C M College, Darbhanga, then at Ranchi College, Ranchi, before joining Indian Police Service in 1952. Sinha served as Superintendent of Police, Champaran (1958-1963) and Bhagalpur (1965-1968), Superintendent of Railway Police, Muzaffarpur (1968-1970) and Senior Superintendent of Police, Ranchi (1970-1971), Deputy Inspector-General of Police and Member Secretary, Bihar Police Manual Revision Committee in June, 1971, Deputy Inspector - General of Police, Central Range, Patna (1974-1977) and later Doctorate.I.G. of Police, Criminal Investigation Department till his death in harness on 7 November 1979.
Sinha was an acclaimed literary critic and reputed writer in the field of Hindi Literature.
He authored Prathmiki, a landmark work in Hindi literary criticism in 1965 and followed it up with Aaj Tak Kee, its companion volume. His book, Apradhiki, rare book in Hindi on Crimonology, was awarded Best Book Of The Year 1971 by the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
As DIG (Naxalites), Sinha showed rare intellectual integrity and courage by writing three articles in the English daily The Searchlight recognising the naxalite movement as a socio-economic and political issue and not just as a mere policing job. In these pioneering articles, Sinha stated, ““putting in zealous and dedicated social reformers drawn from all shades to bring about transformation on the socio-cultural planes’ is as much a part of ‘the counter-insurgency measures’ as ‘concentrated police operations or operations by the special task forces, may be from the supreme armed formation, the army itself.” This has been seen as major critical interpretation of the movements like Bhoodan in India started by Vinoba Bhave.
